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RP: Where did you leave to go to Manzanar?

HN: Leave what?

RP: Where did you leave the community to go to Manzanar?

HN: We were just across the street, which was right across Olympic Boulevard, was the Japanese school and that's where we were supposed to meet. We just had to go across Olympic Boulevard, that's where we met. We just happened to live right there. And then we had a house full of people, actually, because our cousins that lived in San Fernando Valley, they had to come, go someplace. We had this home so they came and lived with us a few days until... then we had another, another friend from Hollywood that said, "Can we come over and stay until we get relocated?" So we had a house full of people for a few days.

RP: You didn't have any folks from Terminal Island, did you?

HN: No. No.

RP: And did you, did you take a bus or a train up to Manzanar?

HN: It was a bus. Yeah.

RP: Santa Monica bus?

HN: I don't know what it was. I don't... no I don't know what kind of a bus it was. Whether it was a Greyhound bus or a city bus or a private bus or whatever. I don't know. I don't remember what it was. I think it was a charter bus. It could have been a, it could have been a city-owned bus, I don't know. I don't know.

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